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After having a nosebleed in the plane, Max finds herself inside the gallery along with Principal Wells. They talk about San Francisco and the gallery's size. Principal Wells urges Max to talk to the many influential people there in order to advance her photography career. He then moves to the second floor and starts to eat caviar.

Max may walk around the gallery and talk to several people, who will be praising her photo and the technique with which it was taken. After looking at the photo, Max will have a nosebleed and a brief vision of the the tornado, with Chloe Price calling for help in the background. Max rushes to the lower level of the gallery and calls Chloe after seeing 6 missed calls on her phone. It is revealed that the Storm is still coming towards Arcadia Bay. Determined to save Chloe, Max focuses on the picture and gets transported to her room in the Blackwelldormitories.

The gallery is divided into a lobby, a bathroom, a staff-only room, a ground-floor exhibit room, a lower-floor exhibit room, and an upper-floor exhibit room. The Zeitgeist Gallery is located on a busy street corner of San Francisco, California. Next to every exhibit on the right side a small card or paper is on the wall giving information about the piece. (This information is not viewable by the player and is purely for aesthetic.)

The lobby has a staff-only room and a bathroom on either side of the entrance. There is a reception desk to the right of the door upon entrance, where Max can view several art books, donate to the gallery, and speak to the receptionist. On the other side of the room, there are two chairs and a table with leaflets, fliers, and a newspaper placed non-descriptively. Max can interact with all of them save the leaflet underneath one of the chairs.

On the left wall of the ground-floor exhibit room, the winners of the Everyday Heroes Photo Contest are listed. Max's name is listed fifth on the first row. Next to this, there is a blurb talking about the gallery's involvement in the contest and giving information to Max and other patrons of the gallery. The header of this wall reads "EVERYDAY HEROES". On the other side of this wall, there are several photos on display that are part of the Everyday Heroes exhibit. Four photos are on display, including one of Hawt Dawg Man. Neon art resembling a Jackalope is on the wall visible after making a turn past the chairs in the lobby, stretching to the ceiling. The lights are white and connected by black wires. The ground-floor exhibit room is connected to the lower-floor exhibit room by a doorway with few stairs leading to it, and connected to the upper-floor exhibit room by a small flight of stairs. The guestbook is located next to the entrance to the lower-floor exhibit room.

Max Caulfield's name on the list of winners.

Neon art.

Photos near the entrance, one of young and old people and the other of competition athletic runners.

Once Max walks down the short amount of stairs, she will reach the lower-floor exhibit room. This room is significantly smaller than the other parts of the gallery. In the exhibit room, three sections of the room are designated. The largest section has a display stand with three black metal humanoid statues in ethereal poses. Their faces and torso are detailed while the limbs are more minimalistic. Each is mounted on an irregularly shaped rectangle of the same material with green spots on it. This section also has three grid-like windows on the ceiling with etched glass. The other two sections display photographs. They both have low cushioned seats that take up the majority of the floor space of said sections. The photo on the left section is a couple with canes walking through a winter forest. There are six photos on display in the right section, three columns with two photos each. The first column has an elderly person playing a guitar on a street corner and a street artist drawing on pavement with people crowding around them. The second column has a hunter and their dog out in winter and the other photo is of two police officers. The third column has an adult comforting a child and a couple embracing with one of them in an armed forces uniform, presumably coming home from battle. All of the photos in this section are square.

The upper-floor exhibit room is accessed by walking up the small flights of stairs on both sides of the ground floor. Other entries of the Everyday Heroes Contest are displayed here. Clusters of smaller photos are all square with two per column and three columns at most. This section of the gallery overlooks the ground floor. The buffet tables are on this floor on either side, and Principal Wells gladly takes part in eating the caviar so Max doesn't have to. The windows from the lower floor exhibit room ceiling peek into this room.

The first cluster of photos near the left staircase include a dog and baby cuddling as a large portrait-style image, and the cluster of smaller photos have two columns. They are a child and parent walking on a beach, a teacher with a book presumably reading to a class, two lab workers doing bloodwork, and a bald hospital patient.

The second cluster of photos (if the player continues to go straight) on the same wall is two landscape-style photos with one of a well-dressed person offering a helping hand or perhaps money to someone sitting condensed on the ground. The second one is of a nurse practitioner in a hospital room with a stethoscope around their neck.

The third cluster of photos is three columns of small square photos. The first column has a firefighter in a mask holding a cat and a pug that has no hind legs sleeping. The second column is a black astronaut and below it is a service dog with a person in a wheelchair. The third column has a colorful pride parade or gathering and a police officer and dog. This is the last cluster of photos on this wall.

The first cluster of photos on the right-hand side are both landscape and are of a hiker pictured on the very top of a mountain and a monochromatic photo of a person holding a camera to their eye.

The next cluster of photos is only one photo. It is a square monochromatic picture of two WLW kissing. This is the last photo on the wall before another wall sticks out, but the wall does continue.

On the other side of the wall facing the previous image, a landscape picture of a waitstaff member is carrying a very large tray of food and drinks. Judging by what is on the tray, they may work at a café or somewhere of the likes that serves many pastries and hot drinks. They are in a formal uniform with one of their sleeves rolled up and a cute little hat.

The continuation of the wall the previous one sticks out from has one portrait photo and two columns of small photos. The landscape photo is of a police officer with a riot shield and face shield. The first column of small photos has a child and a dog running on a hill away from the direction of the forest and a person in red walking on a beach. The second column of small photos has two servicepeople walking away from the camera in turtleshell helmets and the second one is of a well-dressed person offering another person that is bundled up something that looks somewhat like food, but the photo is so low-res it's hard to tell. This is the last photo on this wall and is in a corner with another cluster of photos.

The next cluster of photos that shares a corner with the previous one has two portrait-style photos of people in uniform. The first is of two in marine uniforms holding a gun to their chests and the second is of three people in a line in cadet uniforms.

To the left of this is a cluster of two square photos, featuring Max's entry to the contest. The one next to hers is of a parent and child holding hands and walking through a dirty-looking alleyway. Max's entry is of herself facing her wall of photos in her dorm room, taken from behind.

The cluster of photos next to this is the final one on the wall and it shares a corner with the third cluster of photos on the wall adjacent to the left stairwell. It features one landscape and one portrait photo. The landscape photo is of a parent giving their child a piggy-back ride. The second is of a parent nursing a newborn baby.

In the upper left corner of the room there is a wall in the middle of the floor with photos on two sides of it. All of the photos on the wall are monochromatic. There is one on one side and three on the other, with the three being portrait and the one being square. The square is of a model with long hair sitting down, posing with their elbow on their knee. The other side has one photo of a fashionable blind person walking through a street with a cane, an EMT sitting in the back of an ambulance, and a turtleshell helmet with two dog tags under it.

The wall in the middle of the floor closest to the railing overlooking the ground floor has three photos on it that are all landscape. The first one is of a flight attendant outside of a plane. The second is of two well-dressed and happy elderly people. The third is a teen hitchhiker holding a sign that reads "ANYWHERE."

The other side of this wall has four photos. Two landscape and two portrait with the portrait photos as bookends. The first one is of a parent blue jay feeding its babies, the second is someone with an artificial arm holding a blue tube, the third is of a person with a cane walking through a graveyard, and the fourth is a child holding an injured bird in their hands.

A wall with photos on both sides juts out from the previous one. There is one large square photo on one side, two columns of smaller photos on the other as well as one portrait photo. The one square photo is of a firefighter fighting fire. The small square photos are of a Marine, a child clinging to or hugging their parent while both are smiling, a person sitting on a street corner with a large dog in their lap, and a funeral of someone in the armed forces with the American flag draped over their coffin. The portrait photo is of one person in a wheelchair being pushed by their peer.

Outside of the gallery is viewed through the glass door near the entrance. There are cars parked along the street near the gallery and cars that pass by every couple of seconds. Across the street is multiple storefronts and electric lines. Directly across the street from the gallery, there is graffiti or perhaps a sign for a store that reads "THiS iS WATER" with three fish in between the words "this is" and "water". Across the street there is also a parking sign. A street corner is also viewable, suggesting that the gallery is on a corner. It is a sunny day outside with minimal clouds.

The Zeitgeist Gallery is proud to be a participant in the 2013
"Everyday Heroes" national contest, a showcase for today's
future stars of photography.

The winners, chosen by prestigious teachers from art schools
and programs across the nation, reveal imaginative skill and
heartfelt awareness which highlight the casual heroism of those
who may never appear on the news (or reality shows) for unrecog-
nized deeds to the community and beyond. Celebrating each
young artist and their work is as important as their celebration of
our all too often invisible Everyday Heroes..."

Judging from a concept art, in an early stage of conceptualization the gallery was supposed to be called "eye'Z Gallery".

The name "Zeitgeist" is a Germanism and is the German word for "spirit of age/time".

A series of sculptures in lower-floor exhibit room seem to depict John Cleese's signature Ministry of Silly Walks walk.

One of the art exhibits at the Zeitgeist Gallery is a picture of a person's cybernetic arm similar to Adam Jensen's.

In the gallery's lobby, Max can see a pamphlet for a lecture about dystopias, with examples like Metropolis, Planet of the Apes, Blade Runner, and The Hunger Games.

Max also sees a newspaper article written by a person called "Danny Lee". This name could refer to a New Zealand golfer who often takes selfies. In one article he is even referred to as the "No. 1 golfer in the world (when it comes to selfies)".[1]

Lead-Writer and Co-Director Christian Divine is credited as "Additional Voices" in the end credits of "Polarized", as he voiced several people who attend the "Everyday Heroes Contest" exhibition at the Zeitgeist Gallery.

While most of the street names listed on the fliers and leaflets are accurate to their real world counterparts, there is no such thing as a Miranda Street in Oakland, California. The nearest city from Oakland that has such a street is Hayward, CA.